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Bomb at seminary in Pakistan kills 8 students, wounds 136 - Black News Channel
By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful bomb blast ripped through an Islamic seminary on the outskirts of the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday morning, killing at least eight students and wounding 136 others, police and a hospital spokesman said. The
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Patriots back at work, day after 5th player tested positive - Black News Channel
By The Associated Press undefined The New England Patriots went back to work Saturday, one day after a fifth player tested positive for COVID-19 and one day before their twice-postponed game against Denver. A Patriots spokesman said the team would proceed with its walkthrough, but all meetings
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Biden's warning on oil tests voter resolve on climate change - Black News Channel
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Joe Biden is confronting the harsh political realities of combating climate change. The Democratic presidential nominee has spent months touting a $2 trillion plan to boost investment in clean energy and stop all
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China's economy accelerates as virus recovery gains strength - Black News Channel
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China's shaky economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic is gaining strength as consumers return to shopping malls and auto dealerships while the United States and Europe endure painful contractions. Growth in the world's second-largest economy
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Quake strikes Turkish coast and Greek island, killing 14 - Black News Channel
By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — A strong earthquake struck Friday in the Aegean Sea between the Turkish coast and the Greek island of Samos, killing at least 14 people and injuring hundreds amid collapsed buildings and flooding, officials said. A small
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New Zealand's Ardern wins 2nd term in election landslide - Black News Channel
By NICK PERRY Associated Press AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won a second term in office Saturday in an election landslide of historic proportions. With most votes counted, Ardern's liberal Labour Party was winning 49% of the vote compared to 27% for its
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DEA recruits cite 'monkey noises' among claims of racism - Black News Channel
By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press At the Drug Enforcement Administration's Training Academy in Virginia last year, an instructor on the firing range called out a name that was shared by two trainees, one Black and one white. When both responded, the white instructor clarified, 'I meant the
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Tourists return to Hawaii amid ever-changing pandemic rules - Black News Channel
By CALEB JONES The Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Coronavirus weary residents and struggling business owners in Hawaii will be watching closely as tourists begin to return to the islands on Thursday without being required to self-quarantine upon arrival. A new pre-travel testing program will
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Stocks fall again as Wall Street's miserable week continues - Black News Channel
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are falling in early trading on Friday as Wall Street closes out a punishing week and its first back-to-back monthly loss since March, when worries about the pandemic were first peaking. The S&P 500 was 0.9% lower in early trading, putting it
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Some businesses opening, expanding despite pandemic hurdles - Black News Channel
By KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — First there was taco night, then barbecue sandwiches, followed by meats by the pound — all splashy marketing events to generate buzz leading up to Proof BBQ's grand opening in the Cleveland suburbs. And then came coronavirus. Michael
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Amid turmoil, Kyrgyzstan sets presidential vote for Jan. 10 - Black News Channel
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Authorities in Kyrgyzstan on Saturday called an early presidential election for January after the nation's previous president was driven from power by protests triggered by a disputed vote. The Oct. 4 parliamentary election was swept by
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Here’s what you need to know about the 3rd-party candidates on the Mass. presidential ballot
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Nigeria protests against police kill 10, charges Amnesty - Black News Channel
By SAM OLUKOYA Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Widespread protests against Nigeria's police have turned violent as demonstrators have been attacked by armed gangs in the streets of several cities, according to witnesses. Since the protests began more than a week ago, at least 10 people have
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New virus restrictions in Europe; Merkel warns of hard days - Black News Channel
By DAVID RISING Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to come together like they did in the spring to slow the spread of the coronavirus as the country posted another daily record of new cases Saturday. 'Difficult months are ahead of us,' she said in her weekly video
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Despite past Democratic wins, Trump making a play for Nevada - Black News Channel
By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Democrats have kept Nevada in their column in every presidential election since 2004. In the 2018 midterm election, Democrats delivered a 'blue wave,' flipping a U.S. Senate seat and bolstering their dominance of the congressional delegation
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Trump, Biden go at it — from a distance — in town halls - Black News Channel
By JONATHAN LEMIRE, WILL WEISSERT and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden squared off, in a way, in dueling televised town halls that showcased striking differences in temperament, views on racial justice and approaches to a pandemic
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Croatia accused of brutality, sexual abuse against migrants - Black News Channel
By SABINA NIKSIC Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) —  Danish aid workers stationed in the Balkans say dozens of migrants have alleged they were brutalized by Croatian law-enforcement officers when they tried to cross into the European Union nation, before being summarily expelled
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Senate votes to advance Barrett; confirmation expected Mon - Black News Channel
By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans voted overwhelmingly Sunday to advance Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett toward final confirmation despite Democratic objections, just over a week before the presidential election. Barrett's confirmation on
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Four years in, Trump has plenty of unfinished business - Black News Channel
By AAMER MADHANI and DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump swept into office nearly four years ago as an outsider who promised to get things done quickly on behalf of the American people through sheer force of will and unrivaled knowledge about the art of the
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Most US clergy avoid hellfire threats over abortion politics - Black News Channel
By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer James Altman is a Roman Catholic priest in Wisconsin, little known outside his parish until a few weeks ago. Robert Jeffress is the high-profile pastor of a Baptist megachurch in Dallas. They have a message in common for members of their faiths: Voting for
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On virus, Trump and health advisers go their separate ways - Black News Channel
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A multi-state coronavirus surge in the countdown to Election Day has exposed a clear split between President Donald Trump's bullish embrace of a return to normalcy and urgent public warnings from the government's top health
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Spain PM appeals for public unity, sacrifice in virus fight - Black News Channel
By Associated Press Undefined MADRID (AP) — Prime Minster Pedro Sánchez appealed Friday for Spaniards to pull together and defeat the new coronavirus, warning: “The situation is serious.” Sánchez, in a televised address to the nation, acknowledged public fatigue with restrictions to contain the
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Eyes turn to Texas as early voting surge surpasses 2016 - Black News Channel
By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas has already cast nearly 7 million votes, more than anywhere in America, and Glen Murdoch couldn't get his ballot in fast enough after becoming a U.S. citizen this summer. 'I was champing at the bit,' said Murdoch, who moved to Austin from
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US: Russian hackers targeting state, local networks - Black News Channel
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials said that Russian hackers have targeted the networks of dozens of state and local governments in the United States in recent days, stealing data from at least two servers. The warning, less than two weeks before the
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Stocks are down on Wall Street as more earnings come in - Black News Channel
By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer U.S. stock indexes are modestly lower in midday trading Friday as Wall Street weighs another batch of corporate results from the summer earnings period. The S&P 500 was down 0.2%, after shedding a slight early gain. The benchmark index is on track for its first
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Murkowski's nod gives Barrett extra boost for Supreme Court - Black News Channel
By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett won crucial backing when one of the last Republican holdouts against filling the seat during an election season announced support for President Donald Trump's pick ahead of
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Stocks fall on Wall Street as coronavirus spreads in Europe - Black News Channel
By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Stocks are falling on Wall Street in afternoon trading Thursday, extending the market's pullback this week as optimism that Congress will deliver another round of stimulus for the economy wanes and new data show another weekly surge in the number of Americans
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Coronavirus deaths are rising again in the US, as feared - Black News Channel
By LISA MARIE PANE and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Deaths per day from the coronavirus in the U.S. are on the rise again, just as health experts had feared, and cases are climbing in nearly every state, despite assurances from President Donald Trump over the weekend that 'we're
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Domestic Terror Arrests in Michigan Heighten Alarm of Rightwing Violence - Black News Channel
By Barrington M. Salmon, NNPA Newswire Contributor In recent months, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, and several lower-level Trump administration officials had been warning about the danger posed by homegrown domestic terrorists. Those concerns
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Texas early voting exceeds total of all 2016 ballots - Black News Channel
By WILL WEISSERT and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press EDINBERG, Texas (AP) — Texans have already cast more ballots in the presidential election than they did during all of 2016 — an unprecedented surge of early voting in a state that was once the country's most reliably Republican, but may now be
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